The vet just poked and prodded. It was distressing Abbey and the vet had no clue so I chose to leave. Please do not think of a highly educated & experienced vet like in the US, picture more of a high school trainee. We clean her pretty well everyday.
Quick update: When we cleaned her up and put neosporin on again today we noticed that the bleeding was coming from her broken shell. As far as we can tell it is not from internal bleeding. Is this normal for broken shells?
The bleeding had stopped for a day but overnight it came out like in...
Hi All- Things seemed to be going ok for the past couple of days. She ate a little papaya and was moving around. We have been cleaning her would with saline water and putting neosporin on it daily.
But today her tail wound looks much worse than before and she hasn't moved for at least 12...
Thank you for your replies.
I put neosporin on the broken bits of her shell.
But based on the experience with the local vet I am very concerned that Abbey will be worse off by being injected with antibiotics by someone who has no clue as to dosage nor where to stick the needle. The vet was...
Abbey is our lovely tortoise, about 3 pounds, not sure what kind --probably some sort of desert tortoise, she was given to us recently and they didn't know what kind she was either.
To keep her away from our boisterous and chew-everything-including-rocks/birds/rats/frogs/hamsters 70 pound...